Blue Raspberry is out now ?!?? sophomore album????
Thank you all!!!! No person is a failure whomst has friends why wouldn’t that be enough etc etc !!!!
hillarious prank: record an album over multiple years and be bad at school because writing songs is all you care to be good at and then drink half a glass of wine 30 minutes before it’s released and then just see what happens and what you feel and how close you get to crying
It took me four years to write this song and it only began to make sense after I fell in love with a girl for the first time. If you love someone, why wouldn’t you love the daily social maneuvering that makes them feel the most ok in the world? 💎
spring of 2020: take depressive walks around your blooming springtime glory of a neighborhood whilst listening to the blooming springtime glory of St. Cloud and wondering if you’ll ever play a Real Show again
spring of 2021: tix on sale fri @
Cool Dry Place turned a year old. To celebrate we’ve recorded 2 covers we played on tour: “So Much Wine, Merry Christmas” (the Handsome Family) and “Bad Man” (Alex G). They’re both important to me and I’m glad they’re recorded with people I love xoxo etc
I’m very happy to inform you that I’ll be running ‘round America next February with Illuminati Hotties + Fenne Lily! Absolutely love to not experience winter! I win!
We finally made a video for Juniper! It is merely a music video (footage of me singing & looking nicer than I usually do) but there’s hints of themes such as intergenerational knowledge & the way your mom teaches you to put on mascara for the first time.
We finally made a video for Juniper! It is merely a music video (footage of me singing & looking nicer than I usually do) but there’s hints of themes such as intergenerational knowledge & the way your mom teaches you to put on mascara for the first time.
Portals is out today! It’s the last single before the release of my debut album ‘Cool Dry Place’ next Friday. Thanks to anyone who told me it was a pretty good song when I just thought it was a pretty weird song.
Thanks for the kind nod
@guardianmusic
! Honored to know I am one being watched! Currently amusing myself by imagining nice British journalists observing my day-to-day in a stakeout of some kind, binoculars, etc. in tow. Cheers!
Cool Dry Place came out 6 months ago. I wrote a cocktail recipe called “Juniper’s Last Word” + it's been printed on bandanas that you can buy from stops along our route - most of which are sold out but not all. CHEERS + THANKS FOR LISTENING
"Just as the track’s title references the synthesized diamond, the song finds Kirby dissecting all of the ways a person becomes who they are — and how, in a relationship, a partner hopefully learns to love them." 💎
I wrote "Party of the Century" with my supremely delightful friend
@chrisleehutson
over FaceTime— it turned out sweet and sad in the way watching old videos of your friends feels sweet and sad. Stay Sweet! Stay Sad! Love you!
It is THE most absurdly good luck to be opening for
@damienjuradomusic
in TX next month, also here's a thread of the various NYC omens that informed me something fucking cool was about to happen--
"‘Cubic Zirconia’ is a soft, whimsical track with sickly sweet vocals... The name, ‘Cubic Zirconia’, acts as 'a salute to whatever the world looks down on as ‘artificial’ – even a defence of artifice', Kirby explains."
—
@FarOutMag
"Katy Kirby debuted another clip of distinctive, stirring beauty from her forthcoming sophomore LP Blue Raspberry. ['Party of the Century' is] as devastating as it is so deftly romantic... Song of the year? You could argue that. I certainly will."
—Matt Mitchell
@PasteMagazine
"Hand to Hand" from my upcoming record ‘Blue Raspberry’ is out today with a homemade lyric video framed around a wedding makeup tutorial when the theme of your wedding is "making a bad decision."
Listen & watch:
"Whether slipping into playful metaphors or arriving at an important realization, Kirby sounds, at once, comfortable and uncomfortable with the fluidity of interactions and situations, which is what makes this record more than just an incredibly pleasing collection of songs."
Hosting a little party for my drooling unmanageable two year old (Cool Dry Place)—will be joined by
@poiseband
and Grumpy for enhanced festivity, see you there 🎂
The music video for “Traffic!” is out today, from an album I’ll be releasing on
@keeledscales
Feb. 19, 2021 titled Cool Dry Place. Link in bio to watch/listen/etc.
"Like so much of the best folk music, there’s a real lived-in feeling to Katy’s words and melodies, and a welcoming plainspokenness that invites you to live with them too."
—
@brooklynvegan
Listen here:
Jane is the best living culture writer—we became irl pals shortly after this interview because she’s thoughtful and unpretentious and very fuckin cool. Fully endorsed.
cordial invite to an e-gig/extremely small battle of the bands (where everyone wins) this Thursday at 8cst. We’ll be not-battling our cohorts/contemporaries/crushes in
@anothermichaels
under the virtual auspices of
@goldendaggerchi
and
@HarmonicaDunn
"Folk newcomer Katy Kirby's 'Secret Language' bursts alive in the last 30 seconds, and feels like stepping into a blossoming, hidden garden." - thanks
@NylonMag
!
Thanks
@VICENews
slash
@NoiseyMusic
for your excitement, plus especially thanks to a long term personal Twitter icon
@JoshhTerry
for bothering to write words about my stuff?! Cheers!!!
I need you to know that
@anothermichaels
are also celebrating the release of their album tomorrow with a live stream, and that it's conveniently right before ours (6 and 7cst), but I like NEED you to know I just found a poster confirming we met exactly 2 years ago on 3/11/19. 😇
"Katy Kirby is one hell of a writer, and she lets that talent take hold on 'Hand To Hand,' a bleary, intimate shuffle of a song that burbles with discontent... 'What I can’t remember won’t hurt me/ Thank god in advance, I’m already forgetting.'"
—
@stereogum
'Cool Dry Place' is album of the week at
@stereogum
! "This is unhurried and exceedingly clever songwriting. The songs are sweeping in scope but they never feel overbearing; they shimmer with whimsy and hooks but Kirby’s self-discipline is evident throughout."
in case you forgot, I’m opening up four shows in TX this week for Damien Jurado —also did you know they call it the lone star state because of they sell the beer lone star here? look it up! (tix avail at )
"Katy Kirby’s songs feel like they’ve been around forever. Her debut LP Cool Dry Place is home to nine of them – all different from one another, all keepers." wow thanks
@guitarmagazine
!!
Welp, here it is. I'm forever thankful to you all for listening, and especially to those who sang or played or encouraged this little guy into existence. I feel quite loved!!!
--Kathy
tomorrow @ noon central on instagram. psyched to participate in the hallowed legacy of
@blogotheque
+ to try to make you like me by interacting with the ig live comments, I hope that you like me, thanks.
"Kirby has a similarly poetic approach to the subtleties of life’s shadows, and the whispered ways she describes them always feels comforting." thanks
@stereogum
!
Listen to the new songs you need to know every week by subscribing to our Discovery playlist over on Spotify - this week featuring Kylie V, TiKA, Deb Never, Eaves Wilder, dexter, beaux and tons more
"Cool Dry Place invites you to come for the quirk, but stay for the quality of what is on display.... Kirby has taken her time to sketch, rearrange, and ultimately craft a work of art just the way she wanted you to see it."
thanks
@Under_Radar_Mag
!
ok ok ok this feels extraordinarily flattering and thrilling but if you told me in 2011 that Love Story + ask Friday would be on this list? I would think that you were “on weed” ?
WOW.
@KatyKirby_
in the New York Times!! And the album is just around the corner 💕
"Katy Kirby’s voice is modest and breathy, with a few unconcealed cracks, as she muses over a shaky relationship in metaphysical terms"
for your reading pleasure—a little lyric video for Cubic Zirconia, featuring lots of footage I took from the beautiful wedding of my dear Rowen and Thomas. :,) Long Live!!!
"...effortless, clean, pensive ability is what makes Kirby so singular as a songwriter, and the ear that enables her to pair that expertise with soaring vocals and glimmering instrumentation makes Blue Raspberry a standard-setting piece of lyricism."
—
@PasteMagazine
💙
Katy Kirby’s (
@KatyKirby_
) sophomore album, ‘Blue Raspberry,’ is a smart, sexy thinkpiece on queer romance in a world on fire. Read our full review ⭐️🔗⬇️
"'Hand to Hand' is another stroke of brilliance from Katy Kirby... the Nashville/New York City singer/songwriter is at an apex right now, churning out masterful singles with ease. 'Hand to Hand' is soft in nature, experimental in execution."
—
@stereogum
Don’t miss our picks for our favorite songs of the week, featuring new digs from Jimmy Montague (
@jimmymontague69
), Katy Kirby (
@KatyKirby_
), DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ (
@DJSTTDJ
), and more ⭐️🔗:
shows + gigs + performances far and wide in your city for one night only live and jn person
new US dates / all eu and uk dates on sale this friday at 10am local
"It's a love song about admiring the choices our loved ones make about how they present themselves to the world – even if those choices might seem, to other people, fake or artificial."
Thanks
@nprmusic
/
@allsongs
!